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Not what I'd call a figurehead...
Hasn't it got lost somewhere?
KDE certainly isn't the cause ;-/ !!!
No really ;-)

Anyway: Nice that Krita is somewhat back to life
again. A KDE/QT-based painting app is certainly
needed and GIMP is now the last GTK app that
has survived on my desktop - and frankly I hate
that stupid multi-windows interface.

Most of the notes in my blog on my progress with Krita this week have a screenshot or so-- in fact the link above points to one of them. It might be a bit slow, though, since my server is behind a slow ADSL link.

Well, if you have installed KOffice (and all headers, of course), you could try to checkout the koffice cvs module, do a make -f Makefile.cvs && ./configure -- and then cd into the krita subdir and do a make from there. I'm not sure it would work, but it's worth a try.

I would love to see this as well. I am not the original poster, but I'd love to seethe ability to save calendar data and integrate it into plone's calendar or maybe create a module for plone that would interface with korganizer.

Nothing kills an application faster than a horrible user interface. Look at the icons in Kontact/KOrganizer's sidebar - they are horrific. The KMail and the phone/contacts icon just has to go. It is just simply ugly to look at.

KOffice had ugly icons for a long time (bold, italic, underline), but they've fixed it. Time for Kontact to follow suite.

IMO the only major thing I'm missing is the ability to
click on a mail and turn it into a todo-item with
the body of the mail attached. The current attachment
system seems quite obscure to me BTW: Why is it asking
for a URI?

Ah! Drag&drop functionality is very cool indeed. Thanks for the hint.
There should be an easier way to jump back to get to the mail though.
Right now I have to open the edit dialog, go to attachments,
double click on the attachment. Now the mail is selected in the Kontact
mail KPart but it doesn't go there directly so I have to activate
the mail part separately. And afterwards I have to switch back to
the todo KPart to read the next item. Thats really complicated.
Why not simply opening the mail in a new window just like when you
double click on a mail in KMail? And even better - because usually
there is just one attachment - there should be a menu item / key combination
which opens the first (and only) attachment directly without opening
the edit dialog.
Anyway: The more I play around with the new KOrganizer the more I like
it. The quick entry for new todo-items is really useful. It's the
first time I think that an organizer app isn't too complicated for
everyday use. Until now, I didn't like all of them because they required
so many click & keystrokes and forced me to organize more than I actually
want to.

I was just trying KDE 3.2rc1 and I managed to crash KOrganizer after only 1,5 minute of playing around with it, creating a couple of random overlapping meetings, resizing the window, opening and closing some windows and things like that..

I don't have any non-stripped non-omit-framepointer binaries around so I don't think that wouldn't be of much use..
However, just create a couple of overlapping meetings, try clicking around like crazy, resizing the windows. hiding and showing the window 20 times in a row by using the traybar icon, selecting every single menuitem, and stuff like that...

The first thing I do when I test a program for stability is to abuse every single feature I can find... If there is a button I will click it 20 times... If there is a checkbox I will enable it... AND disable it ;) If it wants an image I give it an executable. I will try to save to the CDROM ;) I will cut and paste text and data between all fields I can find.. And so on...

BUT - there's still one thing I find oddly missing. Not every event that needs to be tracked is something scheduled for a future date. Often, keeping an organized journal of events that have *occurred* is just as important - conversations with clients for example. Currently you can kludge this by entering the same value for both the start and end dates, along with the "No time associated" option, but then this suggests a "duration" of at least one day. I'd like to see a journal section added - the entry from would include, at minimum: Summary, Date, Time, a text field (for the journal entry itself), and a category. It would also be useful to view the entries in a list format that can be sorted by date/time, summary, or category. A search function would be nice as well.